Bank for International Settlements

Name: Bank for International Settlements
Creator: Bank for International Settlements
License: BIS terms (attribution, non-commercial)

Open · redistributedBIS terms (attribution, non-commercial)Interest Rates

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

Temporal coverage

1945-01-01 – 2026-04-01

Frequencies

Monthly

Distinct geographies

Licensing & provenance

License: BIS terms (attribution, non-commercial)
Required attribution: Source: BIS (non-commercial reuse, attribution)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

How to cite

Bank for International Settlements. Retrieved from https://data.bis.org. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download bis series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/bis
Update cadence: monthly (target — not yet automated)
Automated refresh: not yet wired — the data here is the verified initial load. See the Source Status board.
Update strategy: bulk snapshot if changed
Storage layout: grouped: one parquet per non-giant dataflow (<DID>.parquet); giants chunked into <DID>__<FREQ>.parquet and MEGA giants into <DID>__<FREQ>__<VAL>.parquet (e.g. WS_CBS_PUB__Q__US.parquet). _manifest.json + _catalog.json sidecars. Schema: series_key, obs_date(date32), value(float64), freq. Note this writes WS_*.parquet into the SAME data/clean_full/bis dir that ingest_bis_cbs_lbs.py writes CBS.parquet/LBS.parquet to.

Full description

Download and ingest BIS CBS (Consolidated Banking Statistics) and LBS (Locational Banking Statistics) from the BIS Data Portal bulk downloads. These are NOT accessible via the BIS SDMX v1 API (returns 404) but ARE available as full CSV zip files at data.bis.org/static/bulk/. CBS = WS_CBS_PUB (consolidated positions of internationally-active banking groups) LBS = WS_LBS_D_PUB (locational stats - includes both LBSR and LBSN dimensions) License: bis-attrib-nc (non-commercial, attribution required). Run: python jobs/ingest_bis_cbs_lbs.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets